Antifriction-bearing.



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- 'PATENTED MAR.22', 1904. WEBER & F. 0. & W. M. DEYHERLE.

ANTIFRIGTION BEARING.

APPLICATION FILED QOT.3, 1902.

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Patented March 22, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. WEBER, FREDERICK C. DEYHERLE, AND WILLIAM M.

DEYHERLE, OF ST.

LOUIS, MISSOURI.

A ANTIFFHCTION-BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755;088, dated March 22, 1904.

Application filed October 3, 1902.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM J. WEBER, FREDERICK C. DEYHERLE, and WILLIAM M. DEYHERLE, citizens of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Antifriction-Bearings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. r

Our invention relates to a rolling antifriction-bearing in which a series of rollers are made use of that are provided with ball-shaped ends which serve as the spindles of the rollers as distinguished from the ordinary elongated spindles of such rollers, therebyfurnishing a construction having uniform bearing-contact throughout the rollers both at their circumferences and ends. 1

Our invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is an end view of our bearing looking at the left-hand side of the bearing as illustrated in Fig. II. Fig. II is an elevation of the bearing. Fig. III is a cross-section shown surmounted by a brass or bearing-box. Fig. IV is an enlarged view having the central portion broken out, partlyin longitudinal section, and showing one of the bearing-rollers in elevation. Fig. Vis a longitudinal section taken through the bearing-barrel and illustrating the attachment of the detachable end ring of the bearing-barrel.

l designates one end of a bearing-barrel, which is provided with a series of separatingfingers 2, which extend longitudinally of the barrel and are provided with curved faces 3, which oppose each other,-as seen in Fig. III. The spacing-fingers 2 are separated from each other a uniform distance to receive rollers 4, adapted to turn in the bearing-barrel in contact with the curved faces'3 of the fingers 2. Each of the rollers 4 is provided with ballshaped ends 5. 1

6 is an end ring fitted to theends of the fingers 2 at the far end of the bearing-barrel Serial No. 125,727. (No model.)

from that at which the end ring 1, which carries the fingers, is located. The end ring 6 is secured to the fingers 2-by screws 7 its attachment being eflected after the rollers have been put in place. The construction provides for the removal of the end ring 6 at any time to permit the removal of the rollers 4 and the substitution of new rollers.

In the end ring 6 are sockets 8, which receive the ball-shaped ends of the rollers 4., as seen in Fig. IV, and apertures 9 are formed in the ring 6 at the locations of the sockets, through which the ends of the rollers may project, as seen in Figs. I and IV, to furnish end bearing contact against the rollers 1 is provided with sockets 1, similar to those in the ring 6 and apertures 1 A designates a bearing-box or brass mounted on the rollers I and provided with depending legs-B, against the inside faces of which the ends of the rollers that project through the apertures 9 and 1 have bearing.

C is a shaft or other journal positioned within the bearing-barrel.

The antifriction-bearing herein described may be used in connection with bearing-boxes for shafts, spindles, or with any other form of journals, and its use is not limited to the The ring construction of bearing-box seen in Figs. III

and IV, it being equally serviceable in bearings in which the ends of the barrel are not inclosed, as they are with the box shown. Where there is no end inclosure for the barrel, the apertures in the end rings may be omitted, inasmuch as in that instance they would not be necessitated, owing to the lack of surfaces for the ends of the rollers to contact with outside of the barrel.

We claim as our invention 1. In an antifriction-bearing, the combination of a barrel having end rings provided with ball-sockets extending through the rings, and a series of separated rollers of uniform diameter having ball-shaped ends seated in said ballsockets, to protrude therethrough and furnish end bearing contact for each roller, substantially as described.

2. In an antifriction-bearing, the combination of a barrel having an end ring provided said sockets to furnish end bearing contact for with ball-sockets extending through the ring, each roller, substantially as set forth.

a series of fingers carried by said end ring, a \VILLIAM J. WEBER.

second end ring provided with ball-sockets ex- FREDERICK C. DEYHERLE. tending therethrough and said latter ring belVlLLIAM M. DEYHERLE. ing detachably connected to said fingers, and In presence of a series of separated rollers of uniform diame- E. S. KNIGHT,

ter having ball-shaped ends projecting through M. P. SMITH. 

